Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Post by sosodev » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:30 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #134

iamwil wrote: post #71

Rust lang - Memory safety through zero cost abstraction as a way to eliminate a large class of errors in systems languages is interesting. Especially if it allows more people to write systems programs. WASM - Mostly as a compile target for Rust, but I think this changes the way software might be deployed. No longer as a website, but as a binary distributed across CDNs. ZK-SNARKS - Zero knowledge proofs are still nasc…

> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works, You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.

Post by _urga » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #212

Zig. There's a Why Zig When There is Already CPP, D, and Rust? writeup at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...

Post by pot8n » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:46 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #212

Zig. There's a Why Zig When There is Already CPP, D, and Rust? writeup at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...

Post by jppope » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

Post by lvs » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:51 AM UTC

skmurphy wrote: post #205

lvs wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> UV light treatment of blood. What? No... No don't do this. This is a discarded idea from the era before molecular biology, and it was discarded for very good reason.

Opportunity can come from ideas that are correct but not generally accepted as correct. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783265/ If it were to work it would be a useful new modality. I am not promoting it, but it's on my "watch list" due to efforts by AYTU at Cedars Sinai.